Precocious Cardiac Orienting in a Human Anencephalic Infant
- 20 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 199 (4326) , 322-324
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.619460
Abstract
An anencephalic infant, 3-6 wk old, responded to acoustic stimulation with cardiac decelerations typical of the response pattern seen in normal, older infants. Such precocity implies unexpected competence of lower brain structures. In the normal infant feedback from immature centers may interfere with rather than modulate the functioning of lower centers.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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